Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025

The subsidised wind and solar chickens are coming home to roost – power prices are rocketing out of control in any jurisdiction attempting to run on sunshine and breezes. Adding mega-batteries only makes matters worse. With the ever-present threat of total blackouts, rent-seekers and their propaganda machines are still attempting to deflect and bury what occurred in Spain and Portugal last month, but the mob always works you out.

Which brings us to this week’s roundup.

First up, Guy Mitchell taps into the laws of physics – the very same immutable laws that mean dilute, diffuse weather and sunshine-dependent wind and solar can never amount to meaningful power generation sources. Ever.

The Achilles Heel of Wind and Solar
American Thinker
Guy Mitchell
15 May 2025

Meanwhile Down Under, hard-pressed households and embattled businesses are being lined up for another 10% hike on what are already the world’s highest power prices and, as the team from Jo Nova explains, the worst is yet to come.

Bang! Price bomb sinks Transmission lines: Plan B says let’s pretend cars, home solar and batteries will save “Transition”
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
27 May 2025

In this two-part essay, Russ Schussler places focus on how subsidised and intermittent wind and solar have totally wrecked once orderly power markets and why you pay the ever-increasing and exorbitant price for that entirely deliberate destruction.

Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part I: The fat tail problem
Climate Etc
Russ Schussler
13 May 2025

Why “cheaper” solar raises costs. Part II: The hidden costs of residential solar
Climate Etc
Russ Schussler
22 May 2025

In this video, David Turver takes a look at the same phenomenon in the UK – where colossal subsidies to wind and solar are driving out cheap and reliable gas-fired power and, you guessed it, consumers are paying the price.

Renewables are Much More Expensive than Gas-Fired Electricity
YouTube
David Turver
17 May 2025

We continue that theme with Bjorn Lomborg’s piece than establishes, without a shadow of a doubt, that the principal cause of rocketing power prices is, always and everywhere, subsidised wind and solar.

‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!
New York Post
Bjorn Lomborg
7 May 2025

Alex Epstein details the beginning of the end of the wind and solar scam in the USA, with Congress making its first concerted attack on wind and solar subsidies, with legislators clearing the path for reliable and affordable nuclear power generation, instead.

Victory for energy freedom: the House (finally) limits IRA subsidies
Substack
Alex Epstein
23 May 2025

And, as Robert Bryce details, the expansion of nuclear power in the US has just received the President’s executive endorsement, with a suite of orders issued by Donald J Trump directed at bringing an additional 200 GW of nuclear power generation online by 2035, more than doubling US nuclear power generation.

Nuclear Conversion
Substack
Robert Bryce
20 May 2025

Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.

4 thoughts on “Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025

  1. Those who support Wind Turbines and think they’re quiet have never lived close to them. I have read and seen stories of just how noisy they can be and what a Hazard to Large Birds and Whales they can be

  2. A devastating collection of articles.

    No country really had a “Plan A”, no less a “Plan B”. They all had goals.

    “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”, Antoine de St. Exupery

    “A failure to plan is a plan to fail.”, Benjamin Franklin

    “If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.”

    We are paying the price of beginning vast programs with half-vast ideas. 😉

    1. My favorite response to that situation is, “That’s not a plan. That’s a mission statement.”

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